Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.
B.K.S. IYENGARIs it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.
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The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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It is never too late in life to practice yoga
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
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Our greed comes from our fear that we will not have enough – whether it is money or love that we grasp. Yoga teaches us to let go of these fears and so to realize the abundance around us and within us.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole.
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Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.
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You exist without the feeling of existence.
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My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.
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